Better Than a Hallelujah

"Better Than a Hallelujah"
Single by Amy Grant
from the album Somewhere Down the Road
Released 2010
Format Digital MP3 Single
Genre CCM, Adult Contemporary, Pop
Length 3:44
Label EMI/Sparrow
Writer(s) Sarah Hart
Chapin Hartford
Producer(s) Dan Muckala
Amy Grant singles chronology
"She Colors My Day"
(2009)		 "Better Than a Hallelujah"
(2010)		 "Don't Try So Hard"
(2013)

"Better Than a Hallelujah" is a digital MP3 single released in 2010 (see 2010 in music) to promote Amy Grant's album Somewhere Down the Road, which was also released in 2010. The single for "Better Than a Hallelujah" was released to radio for airplay and additionally released commercially as a digital MP3, as the same version to appear on the album. The radio single reached number 8 on the Christian charts.

Although not included on the single release, an "Ambient Mix" of the song was released digitally as a bonus track for the album Somewhere Down the Road on iTunes and other services.

In early 2011, "Better Than a Hallelujah" received a Grammy nomination for Best Gospel Song for songwriters Sarah Hart and Chapin Hartford. However, it lost to "It's What I Do," written by Jerry Peters and Kirk Whalum and recorded by Whalum and Lalah Hathaway. The song also received a nomination for a Dove Award for Short Form Music Video of the Year at the 42nd GMA Dove Awards.[1]

Music video

A music video was produced to promote the single. It shows the story of an old man who discovers an old letter from his girlfriend, and goes back to her house to find that another family lives there. He goes to public records to find her location at a cemetery. At the grave, he opens the letter to find that she wrote that he was going to be a father, and drops it in the wind. He recalls back to 1952 when he was in love with a girl, and had to leave, perhaps to war without opening the letter to find a headstone for "Judith Hanson and child". The video proved to be a moving topic for netizens in China according to the Chinasmack blog.

Track listing

  1. "Better Than a Hallelujah" - 3:44

Although there was an Ambient Mix (3:34) made of the song, it was not available on the single but was later released in 2011 as a track on the expanded edition of the album Somewhere Down the Road.

Official Versions

References

  1. ↑ 42nd Annual GMA Dove Awards Nominees on DoveAwards.com

External links

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